Characterization of the first nonmammalian T2 cytokine gene cluster: The cluster contains functional single-copy genes for IL-3, IL-4, IL-13, and GM-CSF, a gene for IL-5 that appears to be a pseudogene, and a gene encoding another cytokinelike transcript, KK34

Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 600-610

  Avery, Stuart ^a   Rothwell, Lisa ^a   Degen, Winfried D J ^b   Schijns, Virgil E J C ^b   Young, John ^a   Kaufman, Jim ^a   Kaiser, Pete ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERVET INTERNATIONAL BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; MESSENGER RNA; T2 CYTOKINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; INTERLEUKIN 5 GENE; KK34 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 4944241218     PISSN: 10799907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jir.2004.24.600     Document Type: Article

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